arsenale

See also: Arsenale

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). The form could be due to formal assimilation to words with -ale, with reanalysis of the initial d as d' (“of”). Compare darsena.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ar.seˈna.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nà‧le

Noun

arsenale m (plural arsenali)

  1. dockyard
  2. arsenal

References

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